Kansas City Royals

Take away the 43 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings, the long blond hair and his SoCal cool vibe on the mound, and Zack Greinke remains tied to his Apopka roots. He might pitch close to a different Orange County now, on the opposite coast, but the way he goes about his business follows a game plan he learned as a lanky teenager baffling batters for Apopka High. "He could pitch at 86 [mph], and then all of a sudden, you'd see 94 when he needed it,'' said Sonny Wise, his former coach with the Blue Darters. "He had a knee-buckling breaking ball. "When he wanted to, you were not going to hit him.'' Not many major-leaguers are now, certainly not enough...

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